Highlights
An Unmatched Selection of Poems
With 497 poems, 72 of them new to the Ninth Edition, The Norton Introduction to Poetry continues to provide the widest selection of poetry for introductory courses.
New Contextual Chapter
The Exploring Contexts section of the text introduces a new chapter for the Ninth Edition: “Cultural and Historical Contexts: The Harlem Renaissance.” This chapter offers a compact selection of the best poems from this exciting American literary movement as well as prose works by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and others.
More Material on Writing about Literature
The Ninth Edition offers strengthened and expanded writing help for students. The Writing about Poetry section has been thoroughly rewritten to provide a more accessible guide to argument, research, and citation, and includes a new sample paper on Emily Dickinson that is a useful model for students. The Critical Approaches chapter offers significant new coverage of the major theoretical and critical perspectives for appreciating and interpreting poems. Throughout the text, new questions provide lucid prompts for student writing.
Strengthened Pedagogy Integrated with Multimedia Tools
Discussion questions and writing suggestions have been revised throughout the Ninth Edition. Marginal icons signal all poems that are featured on the Audio Companion or LitWeb.
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